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William Geddes won the Dunvegan Medal for piobaireachd at the Skye Highland Games, a contest that commemorates the tunes . . .
Fresh off its win of the 2010 North American Championship, the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band of Brampton, Ontario, has joined . . .
Robert Mathieson of the House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykhead Pipe Band has announced his resignation as Pipe-Major and Gavin Walker, a former member of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, will take over the storied position.
Craig Muirhead of Stirling, Scotland; Douglas Gardiner of Edinburgh; and Jonathan Graham of Glasgow took home the first . . .
Simon McKerrell of Lenzie, Scotland, won the overall prize at the first Belfast PipeUp International Invitational Solo Piping Competition, an event put . . .
The eighth rendition of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival is set to start Monday, and the week-long event promises to be the most extensive yet in terms of talents and . . .
Bruce Gandy enjoyed a fine day and relatively good prize money at the North Berwick games, a Scottish competition . . .
With only a few days left before the August 11th St. Laurence O’Toole “Evolution” show at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, there are only 25 standing-room tickets left . . .
The first performance of the week-long Piping Live! International Festival of Piping amazes a packed Piping Centre auditorium with a virtuoso performance from one of solo piping’s greatest players.
After an 18-band MSR Qualifying competition at Glasgow Green, the following six Grade 1 bands emerged as finalists for the afternoon Medley and MSR competitions to determine the 2010 World Pipe Band Champion.
St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin won the 2010 World Pipe Band Championship under dry and relatively warm weather at a very crowded Glasgow Green. It was the first . . .
Libby O’Brien of New Zealand, Australia and, now, Scotland reports on the first full day of festivities from the International Festival of Piping and surprises even herself
Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, was the winner of the second annual Silver Cap Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held at the Todd Bar at . . .
What first seemed like a fresh idea for piping is now one of the traditional events at Piping Live!, and there is no shortage . . .
Stuart Easton of New Zealand and Northern Ireland’s Robert Watt won the Piobaireachd competition and the MacCrimmon Trophy for overall best across Breton, Irish and Scottish selections. It is the sixth time that Watt has won the . . .
Our observer-on-the-beat, Libby O’Brien, of the Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl Pipe Band, Australia and New Zealand reports on Tuesday’s activities, the second day of events at Piping Live! 2010.